McCourt divorces Bingham

The Los Angeles Times reports that Frank McCourt has called it quits with the Boston law firm that drew up a marital agreement at the center of the businessman’s high-priced divorce case.

According to the Times, McCourt gave Bingham its walking papers late last month after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott M. Gordon ruled that an agreement between Frank and his lawyer-wife, Jamie D. McCourt, which addressed ownership of the LA Dodgers, cannot be enforced.

Bingham partner Lawrence I. Silverstein, who represented both McCourts in the drafting of the agreement, contended that the parties fully intended the team to be Frank’s separate property.

But Gordon found that disputed copies of an exhibit to the agreement, which was drafted by Silverstein in 2004, were ambiguous.

The decision leaves the issue of who legally owns the Dodgers — which McCourt bought in 2004 for $430 million — up in the air.

The Times confirmed the McCourt-Bingham split with three people familiar with the matter, none of whom were authorized to speak publicly about it.

The parting of ways may be the first step toward McCourt filing an expensive malpractice claim against Silverstein and Bingham.

A Bingham spokesperson said the firm cannot comment on client representational arrangements.